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Kalz, Jill

The Mona Lisa

48 pp. | Creative Education | October, 2004 | Library ISBN 1-58341-272-7 $28.50
(3) 4-6 What in the World? series. This book contextualizes da Vinci's most famous painting culturally as well as artistically. Carefully selected artwork and text elucidates the European Renaissance, along with parallel movements elsewhere in the world, then narrows to focus on da Vinci's life, works, and contemporaries, concluding with specifics about such artistic techniques as sfumato and chiaroscuro. Timeline. Ind.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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